We now have the precedent of secret detention that might make banana republics envious

That's not all. We now have the precedent of secret detention that might make banana republics envious. Some 5.000 young men, mostly students, have been “interviewed” by the FBI for no other reason than they may not be citizens or they are of Middle Eastern origin. Another 1.200 people were detained, and held indefinitely and secretly, most for no reason other than minor immigration violations that would have been ignored in the past. Of the immigration violations that would have been ignored in the past. Of the immigration and Naturalization Service detainees , 11 percent were imprisioned more than six months before being released or deported. About half were imprisoned for more than three months.
In a highly critical report, the Justice Department's own inspector general found that while imprisioned at the federal detention in Brooklyn, detainees feced “a pattern of physical and verbal abuse” as well as “unduly harsh” detention policies, including 23-hours-per-day lockdown, 24-hours-per-day cell lighting, a communications blackout, and excessive handcuffing, leg irons and heavy chains. The report also criticized the FBI for making “little attempt to distinguish” between immigrants who had possible ties to terrorism and the vast majority who did not, including many swept up by chance.
It is un-American to incarcerate a large group of people when there is no credible reason to think they are dangerous.
Even worse, some detainees, have been subjected to secret deportation proceedings. Soon after the September 11 attacks, immigration courts from coast to coast began conducting scores of hearing in secret, with cout officials, forbidden even to confirm that the cases existed.
From the book 'Dude,Where's My Country' by Michael Moore

The Bin Laden family has also gotten on the Carlyle gravy train in 1994.

Until 1994, you headed a company called CaterAir, which was owned by the Carlyle Group- The same year you left the soon-to-be-bankrupt CaterAir, you become governor and quickly oversaw the University of Texas – a state institution – make an investment of $10 million in the Carlyle Group. The Bin Laden family has also gotten on the Carlyle gravy train in 1994.
The Carlyle Group is one of the nation's largest defense contractors, among their many other lines of work. They don't actually build weapons themselves. Rather, they buy failing defense companies, turn them around by making them profitable, and then sell them for huge sums of money.
The people who run the Carlyle Group are a Who's Who of past movers and shakers, everyone from Ronald Reagan's defense secretary, Frank Carlucci, to your dad's secretary of state, James Baker, to former British Prime Minister John Major. Carlucci, the head of Carlyle, also happens to sit on the board of directors of the Middle East Policy Council along with a representative of the bin Laden family business.
After September 11, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal both ran stories pointing out this strange coincidence.
Your first response, Mr Bush, was to ignore it, hoping , I guess that the story would just go away. Your father and his buddies at Carlyle did not renounce the bin Laden investment. Your army of pundits went into spin control. They said , we can't paint these bin Ladens with the same brush we use for Osama! They have nothing to do with him! They hate and despise what he had done! These are the good bin Ladens.
And then the video footage came out. It showed a number of those “good” bin Ladens – including osama's mother, a sister and two brothers – with Osama at his son's wedding party just six and a half months before September 11. It has been reported in The New Yorker that not only has the family not cut ties to Osama, but they have continued to fund him as they have been doing for years. It was not secret to the CIA that Osama bin Laden had access to his family fortune (his share is estimated to be at least $30 million), and the bin Ladens, as well as other Saudis, kept Osama and his group. Al Qaeda, well funded.
Mr. Bush, weeks went by after the attacks on New York and the pentagon, yet your father and his friends at the Carlyle Group refused to buckle in their suport for the bin Laden empire.
Finally, near two months after the attacks, with more and more people questioning the propierty of the Bush family being in bed with the bin Ladens, your father and the Carlyle Group were pressured into giving the bin Ladens their millions back and asked them to leave the company as investors.
Why did it take so long?
Tomake matters worse, it turned out that one of bin Laden's brothers – Shafiq – was actually at a Carlyle Group businee conference in Washington, D.C., the morning of September 11. The day before, at the same conference, your father and Shafiq had been chatting it up with all the other ex-goverment Carlyle bigwigs.
Mr Bush, what is going on here?
You've gotten a free ride from the media, though they know everything I have just written to be the truth ( and, in Fact, I have taken it from the very same mainstream new sources they work for). They seem unwilling, or afraid to ask you a simple question: WHAT IS GOING ON HERE?
In case you don't understand just how bizarre the media's silence is regarding the Bush-bin laden connections, let me draw an analogy to how the press or Congress may have handled something like this if the same shoe had been on the Clinton foot.
From the book 'Dude,Where's My Country' by Michael Moore